Comparison

HTML Viewer vs PDF Document Scanner

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

HTML Viewer

View HTML websites, comics (CBZ, CBR), EPUB books, and PDFs offline. Offers full web rendering, panel-by-panel comic reading, and note-taking for books. Syncs progress across devices via iCloud.

Highlights
  • Offline HTML website rendering
  • CBZ, CBR, EPUB, PDF support
  • Panel-by-panel comic reading
  • Highlights and notes in books/PDFs
  • iCloud sync for reading progress
  • Search within documents and folders
Features
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Pagira opens your HTML sites and pages, your comics in CBZ, CBR, CB7 and CBT, your EPUB books and your PDFs, on iPhone and iPad, even offline. A complete web folder (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, images, subfolders) displays just like in a browser, locally, with no connection. HTML SITES AND PAGES - Full rendering: CSS, JavaScript, images and subfolders genuinely work. fetch/XHR, ES modules and even WebAssembly are supported, because the content is served through a real local web origin, not a simple file preview. - A site in a .zip is uncompressed and opened in one tap. .webarchive files open as they are. - Ideal for courses exported as HTML (medicine, law and other fields) and e-learning modules, technical documentation shipped as a website (electronics, mechanics, manuals, datasheets), generated documentation (Doxygen, Sphinx, MkDocs, Docusaurus, Storybook, Javadoc), Jupyter notebooks, R Markdown and reports saved as HTML, or web pages to keep for later. COMICS AND MANGA - CBZ, CBR, CB7 and CBT, as well as .zip, .rar, .7z or folders that hold only pictures. - Two-page spreads on iPad, manga reading direction, vertical scrolling. - Panel by Panel reading: each panel grows and the balloons read without zooming, even on iPhone. BOOKS AND PDFS - EPUB books with light, sepia and dark themes. - PDFs: continuous scrolling, go to page, contents and thumbnails. - Word, Markdown, RTF and text too. - Highlights, notes and bookmarks in your books and PDFs. SEARCH - Search a whole folder, even scanned PDFs (text recognized on the device), and by file name. - Ask: ask a question, Pagira opens the page that answers it. Nothing made up. OFFLINE AND ICLOUD - 100% offline: once the content is on your device, everything opens without a connection. Perfect on a plane or where there is no network. - Open from the Files app (local storage, iCloud Drive, network server) or via "Open in Pagira" from other apps. - iCloud on demand: files are read as you go, without downloading everything, or downloaded in one tap for a permanent offline copy. Automatic resume after an interruption. - iCloud sync: page, highlights, notes and favorites follow you between iPhone and iPad. HOME AND HISTORY - Home: Currently Reading, Favorites, Recent and Offline, with their covers. - History: every page you have viewed, including within a site, grouped by day, and reopened right where you left off. - Your last reading reopens at launch (can be turned off). Universal (iPhone and iPad, in both orientations) and available in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Polish and Portuguese. PRIVACY Pagira collects nothing, tracks no one and requires no account. Your files stay on your device and in your iCloud: nothing is sent to a server. No ads, no tracking. TRIAL AND PURCHASE Try Pagira for free with all its features (up to 20 document openings, opening a folder doesn't count). After that, a single purchase, with no subscription, unlocks the app for good: Pagira Pro, or Pagira Pro Supporter, shared with your whole family.

About

PDF Document Scanner

Features
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Scan it, file it, send it. Paper in front of you becomes a clean, straight PDF in your own iCloud in seconds — no account, no ads, no subscription, and nothing collected about you. SCAN, OR BRING PHOTOS YOU ALREADY HAVE Point the camera at any paper — letters, contracts, receipts, handwritten notes. Pages are straightened and cleaned up automatically, in color, grayscale or crisp black & white. Already photographed it? Import JPG, HEIC or PNG from your photo library, or an existing PDF. Imported photos are straightened automatically, and you can crop any page by hand when a photo needs it. YOURS, IN YOUR ICLOUD Every scan is a normal PDF in your own iCloud Drive — in the Files app, on your other devices, and still yours if you ever delete the app. Pageora has no server. FIND ANYTHING Every PDF is searchable. Search finds words inside your documents, not just titles — including from your iPhone's Home Screen. Where Apple Intelligence is available, scans name and tag themselves on your device, and you can browse your library by tag. REDACTION THAT MEANS IT Draw a box over anything sensitive and the text underneath is deleted from the PDF, not covered. Copy, extraction and search find nothing — because nothing is there. EDIT PAGES, SEND IT HOW YOU LIKE Crop, rotate, reorder, retake or delete a page. Export at the size you need, and password-protect a PDF before you send it. PAGEORA UNLIMITED, IF YOU WANT MORE Your scans tag themselves — rules sort every new scan by what it is, and you can find duplicates and back up the whole library. Due dates Pageora spots go straight to Calendar. Receipts become spreadsheets — where Apple Intelligence is available, Pageora reads the shop, date and total off the page, ready for your accountant. Tables, text, archive PDF/A and email-sized PDFs too. Finish documents here — sign and date, merge and split, black out a word everywhere at once, and keep private pages behind Face ID. ONE PAYMENT, OR NONE The free app is the full scanner for up to 25 documents — full quality, no watermarks, no ads. Pageora Unlimited removes the limit and turns everything above on, for a single one-time purchase. No subscription, ever. Privacy: Pageora collects no data — no analytics, no tracking, no account. The App Store privacy label says "Data Not Collected" because that is the truth.

Screenshots

HTML Viewer4 screens
PDF Document Scanner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: HTML Viewer at every 6 days against PDF Document Scanner's every 2 weeks. HTML Viewer also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. HTML Viewer sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and PDF Document Scanner sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HTML Viewer ships an update every 6 days, PDF Document Scanner every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
HTML Viewer versus PDF Document Scanner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHTML ViewerPDF Document Scanner
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJimmy DE BRUYNENikola Sretenovic

In-app purchases

5 purchases

HTML Viewer

One-time5
  • Buy Me a Coffee$2.99
  • Buy Me a Dessert$4.99
  • Buy Me a Meal$8.99
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  • Pagira Pro$11.99
  • Pagira Pro Supporter$22.99
1 purchases

PDF Document Scanner

One-time1
  • Pageora Unlimited$14.99

Questions

Is HTML Viewer free?
HTML Viewer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PDF Document Scanner free?
PDF Document Scanner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do HTML Viewer or PDF Document Scanner have ads?
Neither HTML Viewer nor PDF Document Scanner shows ads.
Which is updated more often, HTML Viewer or PDF Document Scanner?
HTML Viewer ships an update every 6 days, and PDF Document Scanner every 2 weeks. Most recently, HTML Viewer was updated on November 5, 2026 and PDF Document Scanner on October 31, 2026.

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